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The Situation
Daniel’s name means “God is my judge”
Theme - God is sovereign over history and empires.
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God’s people are strangers in a foreign land.
Faithfulness to God is challenging while living in a faithless culture.
God’s people face pressure to adopt the culture’s ways.
Tim Keller Said it well.
“Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross”
Daniel was not attempting to maintain the Kosher laws in Babylon because that would have been impossible.
Dan 1:8-16
Kosher laws are not simply about what you eat but about how what you eat is prepared.
Its about who prepares what you eat.
It would have been impossible for Daniel to eat only Kosher foods in Babylon.
Contrary to some beliefs win was not forbidden from the Hebrew diet.
Later Daniel seems to indicate that he both ate meat and drank wine.
The meat and wine were likely offer to the Babylonian God’s before they were served to Daniel.
Receiving these would have been like joining the pagan worship of these Babylonian God’s.
How do we handle the pressure of living for Christ in a world that serves others gods?
1. See this pressure as a means of preparation.
Daniel would face many more pressures.
This actions in this firs would chart a course for greater struggles to come.
The pressure you are in prepares you for greater pressure.
2. See in this pressure God’s provision.
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is not teaching you what to eat but who to trust.
Daniel is not the hero of this story, God is.
The thing that enables Daniel to stand up under the pressure is not his great faith but his great God.
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